Captain Robert Collins approaches researcher
Len Stringfield, while Collins is still stationed
at Wright-Patterson. Collins phones him once a
week. He offers highly technical papers, and
"a meeting with a Colonel who possessed a lot
of information."

Stringfield refuses to reveal his sources, and
Collins breaks off the correspondence and moves on
to contact Bruce Maccabee.

Collins told me " I found him too
unreliable and dropped him."

As to his connection with the Falcon, Collins
stated, "Since being friends with Bill and
having a strictly personal interest in UFOs I also
knew and understood effective CI methods to cover
the identity of a confidential source. Bill was
familiar with these methods. Both the use of my
name and Doty’s to cover the identity of
"Condor" and "Falcon" worked
very well for over 21/2 years. The tracks were
covered just enough now so that it is doubtful
that the real "Condor" or
"Falcon" will ever be found. To this day
I don’t know who they are and Bill won’t
tell me!

1987

Potential Target or
Courier -Lee Graham

Lee Graham was an aerospace worker at Aerojet
Electrosystems in Azusa, California who was shown
documents like the MJ-12 and Aquarius by Bill
Moore, prior to their public release. He
eventually took the documents to his superiors and
came under intense security by the Defense
Investigative Service (DIS). Moore who provided
the documents, however, was never investigated by
DIS even though Lee Graham insisted an
investigation should take place.

In 1987 two men paid an intimidating visit to
Lee Graham’s workplace. One of the men
identified himself as FBI Special Agent William
Hurley. The second man dressed in civilian
clothes, who did not identify himself, turned out
to be Major General Michael Kerby, USAF, who at
the time of the visit was Director of the Air
Force Legislative Liaison office.

The bulk of the one-hour interview was
encouragement and congratulations for
disseminating the MJ-12 document to the public. In
addition to this "pep talk," Graham was
shown the then Top Secret designation of the F-117
‘Stealth’ fighter, by Kirby who had been in
command of the operational aspects of the fighter
while he was stationed at Nellis AFB. This was an
item of interest to Graham, who had been seeking
it through FOIA requests for years.

Strangely, Graham learned the identity of the
man in civilian clothes from another mysterious
figure in the UFO community. This man was C.B.
Scott Jones, then a congressional aide to Senator
Claiborne Pell. Jones provided Graham General
Kirby’s identity, along with a biography and
photograph of the general. He told Graham in the
accompanying letter that Kirby was a "mutual
acquaintance."

When he was later confronted about how he would
know about the mysterious drop-in at Graham’s
worksite to discuss the MJ-12 document, Jones
stated that the general had been at Senator Pell’s
senate suite on a courtesy call, and he had
mentioned the visit to Jones, knowing Jones’
"interest in these matters."

When Graham filed FOIA requests related to his
meeting with the FBI agent and General Kirby he
discovered that he was being monitored by AFOSI
Colonel Barry Hennessey in Washington, D.C.
Interestingly, Hennessey was the boss of AFOSI
officer Richard Doty who had been actively
discussing MJ-12 with Bill Moore and Linda Howe
prior to the mailing of the MJ-12 documents to
Jamie Shandera in December 1984.

In his 1983 meeting with Linda Howe, Doty had
said ""My superiors have asked me to
show you this," as he handed her the document
identified as "Briefing for the
President." The document had included
discussion of MJ-12.

In 1987, the mysterious Kirby/Graham meeting
clearly shows Doty’s boss is now monitoring
Graham who appears to have been given the job of
disseminating the MJ-12 document within the
security community.

September 1987

Potential Target or Courier

–
Whitley Strieber

Strieber receives a private letter at his
cabin, one of only two in thousands of letters
from the public that were received at the New York
cabin. The sender left a phone number, which
Strieber phoned. The caller related a story of
"evil greys" and "appealing
blonds." The greys he said were trying to
improve their race through the use of human
genetic material. "We are in a war here, he
told Strieber, "and you are on the front
line."

The caller maintained that "public
acceptance" of the aliens by the government
would be an "open sesame" that would
allow the visitors to conclude the takeover. The
caller described Strieber as an
"enabler" who was working to counter the
government "subtle holding action."

When Strieber used a private detective to track
the telephone and address of the caller it
eventually led back to a Defense department
exchange located in Colorado. Strieber phoned the
number that was at the end of the mail drops, the
person demanded to know how he had obtained the
number. A couple days later the number was
disconnected. The Boulder Colorado police
threatened to charge the detective, who had
tracked the number for Strieber, with a charge of
impersonating an officer.

November 1987

Potential Targets or Couriers

– Linda Howe

Former USAF Officer Robert Collins was
"frantically" trying to get Linda Howe
to meet with him in Albuquerque. At that meeting,
also attended by John Lear, Collins showed the two
some MJ-12 documents, primarily relating to a live
alien allegedly held captive by the U.S.
Government. According to Howe, Collins stated that
he had worked "behind the scenes" with
Bill Moore for years.

December 1987

Possible Target or Courier

– John Lear

New Concepts Introduced

– Praying
mantises aliens, Area-51, U.S. Government deal
with aliens

Based on information he was receiving from
secret sources John Lear begins to tell stories
that there is an underground base at Area –51
and that back engineering work on flying saucers
is going on at the base. In addition to these
concepts Lear added a number of new ones he had
been told such as,



The U.S. Government
had made a deal for aliens technology in
exchange for looking the other way on
abductions and cattle mutilations.



There was an
underground base both at Area-51 and in Dulce,
New Mexico where these alien interactions were
taking place.



The U.S. had
recovered a whole series of downed UFOs. One
was even buried.

Late 1980s

Potential Targets or Couriers

– Robert Emenegger, Bill Moore, Linda Howe, and
Whitley Strieber.

Robert Emenegger is told by sources that he is
about to get an invitation to meet with a
"live" extraterrestrial in a New Mexico.
This may be a distortion of the Linda Howe offer
to interview the handler who lived with the live
alien captured in 1949. Paul Shartle, who worked
for DAVA at Norton Air Force Base, made the offer
to Emenegger. Emenegger had never met Richard Doty
who was promoting an interview with the
"keeper."

Writer Whitley Strieber was also told the
"live Alien" story by Master Sergeant
Richard Doty. He related the story in his book
"Breakthrough:

I interviewed Mr. Doty after his
retirement, although he apparently told this
story while on active duty as well. In my
interview, Mr. Doty repeated the same tale
that he has told many times, of the capture of
a live alien, whom, he said, was a mechanic or
engineer aboard a UFO. This being, he
continued, had not been able to talk till Air
Force surgeons had rebuilt his vocal chords,
which was done in 1949. He stated that he had
seen videotapes of the alien and is the
originator of the now-famous story that aliens
like strawberry ice cream.

August and September 1988

Potential Targets or Couriers

–
Len Stringfield

Len Stringfield, after a long period of quiet
in contacts from his sources, is contacted by 10
new sources all at the same time. "Each
promised," wrote Stringfield, "that
useful information about UFO crash
crash/retrievals would soon follow. By the end of
November most promises were filled, some were
first-hand reports, some second. But, most
importantly, some provided new backup information
for cases cited in my previously published
reports. Most rewarding was the timely emergence
of persons serving in covert positions with
substantive information in key areas of my
work."

October 1988

New Concepts Introduced

– Naval
Observatory as headquarters for MJ-12, a flow
chart showing the hierarchy of the organization
handling the UFO problem for the U.S. government.

Moore along with a few other people who had
been involved with the underworld of UFO leakers
put together a two-hour national documentary
called "UFO Cover up Live." Richard Doty
and Robert Collins act the back lighted interviews
of Falcon and Condor. They relate the story of the
extraterrestrials. The audience is told what they
look like, where they are from, and bizarre facts
like the fact they like Tibetan music and
strawberry ice cream.

The real Falcon, a man in his 60s is in the
small studio audience for the show. Robert
Coleman, who is also present for the live show
recognizes the man and is surprised that he is
involved.

There were some 75,000 calls into the toll free
number the night of the broadcast, but the number
was less than expected. Moore, Friedman, and
Shandera received a lot of criticism inside the
UFO community for the Falcon and Condor
interviews, and of course the idea put out that
the captured aliens held by the U.S. government
liked Tibetan music, and strawberry ice cream.

1989

Potential Targets or Couriers

– John Lear and Las Vegas KLAS-TV reporter
George Knapp.

New Concepts Introduced

– S-4, element 115, and back engineering work at
Area 51.

A man claiming to be a physicist named Bob
Lazar appears on Las Vegas TV station KLAS. He
claims to have worked at Area 51, in a section
known as S-4, where he worked on back engineering
efforts on 9 recovered flying saucers.

Some in the field were led to believe the
appearance of Lazar was an effort by intelligence
people to hide the testing of a radically new
plane called the Aurora. In 1990 an uncovered
financial analysis done for Lockheed corporation,
showed that the plane was eating up almost a half
billion dollars in funding.

This concept is a no-brainer, and is symbolic
of the problem with the whole disinformation
theory related to UFOs. If the Air Force wanted to
test the Aurora in complete secrecy, would it make
sense to start up a rumor of crashed flying
saucers at Area-51 which would attract tens of
thousands of people to the area where you are
doing the testing?

A Warning Sign Outside Area 51
where Lazar claims to have worked on Flying
Saucers.

Lazar’s story introduces the company EG&G
as a company involved in the UFO program. He also
involves US Navy Intelligence as the overseers of
the UFO program.

The story creates such a worldwide dialogue
that thousands head up into the mountains
surrounding Area 51 to watch what is going on. The
USAF actually takes over public land where the
viewers watch to stop the tours. Some stories
state the UFO work is actually moved to a new AFB
in Utah because of the sudden exposure.

September 1989

Possible Target or Courier

– Timothy Good

The director of a "Special Development
Group" associated with Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey International contacts U.K.
researcher Timothy Good. The director stated that
one of his colleagues had been at Good speech a
few months earlier at the MUFON Symposium in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Good was told the director’s
corporation was working on an International
Touring Display on the subject that would provide
accurate information on UFOs, and be entertaining.
When Good expressed reservations about a circus
company getting involved in UFOs, the director
wrote back and described a government connection
to the UFO International display.

"Organizations such as NASA, United
States Government, Rockwell International,
have agreed to work with out cooperation to
develop the main part of this show, the future
of space and the technical advances predicted
over the next 100 years. Their reluctance at
first was not the fact that we owned circuses,
but on how the UFO subject is going to be
tastefully handled. We have now satisfied
their concerns . . . "

Tim Goodpassed off the project to Bob
Oeschler who he felt was fully qualified to help.
Oeschler had spent years as a UFO researcher, NASA
mission specialist and project engineer.

When Oeschler was brought into the project
known as "Cosmic Journey," he was told
that the project had received the approval of
President George Bush, Vice-president Dan Quayle
and the national Space Council (an organization
based in the White House and protected under
Executive order.)

In November 1989, Oeschler met at the Pentagon
with the general from the intelligence community
attached to the "Cosmic Journey"
project. He proposed Oeschler check with NASA and
NPIC for photos he could use for the exhibit.

The general, according to Oeschler also
proposed an exhibit of a dead alien in " a
space age looking coffin with blue lighting inside
the clear lexan cover."

1987- 1989

Possible Target or Courier

– Howard Blum

New Concepts Introduced

– A secret working group called together in 1987
to study the hidden government aspects of the UFO
phenomena.

According to award winning New York Times
reporter Howard Blum, "a senior official at
the National Security Agency" gives him a
strange lead. The official was helping him with a
book he was doing at the time about the Walker spy
case. The lead was "there’s been a lot of
talk around the NSA about outer space. Weird
stuff. UFOs. Heard they got some kind of all-star
working group or something. A panel of hotshots
zeroing in on UFOs. Going to get the truth at
last."

He approached Pulitzer winning New York Times
reporter Seymour Hersh for help on the story.
Hersh was upset that Blum would pursue such a
story and appeared not to be interested. Two days
later, however, he phoned Blum to confirm there
was some secret working group working on UFOs but
that Blum would have to get the story on his own.

Blum managed to find one of the NSA members who
sat on the super secret inside group called the
UFO Working Group. Blum is able to piece together
the story from there.

The UFO Working Group was a spin-off of the
remote viewing program and more specifically the
"coordinate remote viewing" CRV program.
One version of the story as told by Blum states
that the whole thing started during a meeting held
in the secure vault of President Reagan’s
Scientific Advisor George Keyworth in the fall of
1985.

Dr.
Hal Puthoff, then running the SRI remote viewing
program, explained that Ingo Swann, a viewer,
would demonstrate " A new perceptual channel
through which individuals are able to perceive and
describe remote data not presented to any known
sense."

A short series of precise geographical
coordinates were read to Swann and he proceeded to
describe a building that once the target was
revealed turned out to be the country dacha of
Mikhail Gorbachev.

Following this, a demonstration took place to
show how the displayed "scannate"
technology could be used in antisubmarine warfare.
Swann was shown a series of pictures of
submarines, some American, some Soviet, some in
dry dock, some not built yet. His job was to
provide the exact coordinates of each submarine.

As he was set to call up the coordinates of a
Soviet Delta-class submarine in one of the
photographs, he stopped and reported that he saw
something above the submarine. Asked to draw it on
a piece of paper he drew a classic image of a
flying saucer.

A report was made by the SRI team of the
incident and sent to the DIA who was the
"primary client." About this same time
money from the Army for the CRV program was
withdrawn, and the entire program moved to DIA.

The Swann submarine incident led to a DIA/Navy
Intelligence sponsored program to use scannate to
search for soviet submarines. According to Blum’s
information, the DIA was able to detect at least
17 UFO objects connected to Soviet submarines over
the next 14 months. The project was called Project
magnet and the DIA Directorate for Management and
Operations supervised it.

More importantly, the incidents of the
"hovering UFOs" around submarines
provided an inspiration to Col. John Alexander,
then Director, advanced concepts US Army Lab.
Command, Aldelphi, MD. He proposed that the DIA
Project Aquarius viewers should view an area above
Kickaboo, Texas. It was there that NORAD reported
an unknown object had tripped a manmade
electromagnetic fence extending up to 15,000 miles
above the earth.

The three viewers all were asked to view
anything unusual at that latitude and longitude in
the last 48 hours. By the end of the day all three
CRV viewers had send back drawing of a UFO. With
this addition evidence in hand Alexander convinced
the DIA to set up a "top-secret working group
to investigate the possibility that
extraterrestrials were making contact with this
planet."

Based on this psychic confirmation of a UFO
event obtained by radar, the UFO Working Group was
formed in February 1987. Col. John Alexander sent
out the invitations for others he had chosen to
generate a top-secret review of the UFO situation.

Col. John B. Alexander

Armen Victorian who squared off with Alexander
during the period Howard Blum was researching the
UFO Working Group, described Alexander’s role,
and the start-up of the group this way,

John Alexander's position as the Program
Manager for Contingency Missions of
Conventional Defense Technology, Los Alamos
National Laboratories, enabled him to exploit
the Department of Defense's Project Reliance
"which encourages a search for all
possible sources of existing and incipient
technologies before developing new technology
in-house" to tap into a wide range of
exotic topics, sometimes using defense
contractors, e.g., McDonnell Douglas
Aerospace. I have several reports, some of
which were compiled before his departure to
the Los Alamos National Laboratories when he
was with Army Intelligence, which show
Alexander's keen interest in any and every
exotic subject--UFOs, ESP, psychotronics,
anti- gravity devices, near-death experiments,
psychology warfare and non-lethal weaponry.

Having received a lead on the group Blum
decided to investigate the UFO Working Group. The
story of what he discovered was written up in a
widely distributed 1990 book, "Out There:
The Government’s Secret Quest for
Extraterrestrials."

One UFO newsgroup reader described the Blum
book as "the interesting process of turning
bull shit into history." Many other UFO
researchers quickly echoed that assessment, and
the book ended up receiving little support from
with the UFO community. In reality, those who
claim to have been involved, claim the book is 90%
accurate. These are the same people who were in
the secure vaults when the 1987 meetings occurred.

Blum described the UFO Working Group as a group
trying to "settle this UFO question once and
for all". The men trying to settle the
question were a group of men who had each had some
contact with black budget programs and government
security.

There are three views as to exactly what the
UFO Working Group was. The first view is that they
were a group who knew much more than the average
researcher, but they were not the top-level group
Blum made them out to be. They were a group
scientists, military personnel, and intelligence
analysts who basically sat around a table and
shared anecdotal information and scuttlebutt they
had heard directly or second hand through the
black budget community or through the chain of
command. They looked at the relationship of
various programs to UFO program that all believed
existed somewhere in the black budget of the
United States government.

The second view, exemplified by Howard Blum’s
account is that the group was a highly classified
compartmentalized group working inside the Defense
Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Management
and Operations which had been given great power to
attack the UFO problem.

The DIA Connection

Blum makes a number of references in his
book as to the UFO connection to the UFO
Working Group. This DIA tie-in is
interesting because it parallels stories
being told at the same time by Bill Moore
and others about the key role in the UFO
hierarchy played by the DIA. (complete
story)

The third view is the one put forward by
researchers like Jacques Vallee who believed that
"the Colonel Phillips secret group is not the
real secret group. It is only the latest carrot
dangled in front of a public always eager for new
revelations . . . There is clearly an endless
supply of such stories, and they are always
volunteered to people who are prone to believing
them but have no ability to check them."

The UFO Working group, according to all
accounts, was able to field CIA assets under cover
to investigate UFO sightings. Blum pointed out one
case in Wisconsin where two CIA officers were sent
impersonating NASA engineers. This type of
internal CIA investigation was possible because of
President Ronald Reagan’s signing of Executive
Order 12333, which allowed the CIA to operate
within the United States under certain conditions.

The UFO Working Group was a "group of
insiders who were looking for the insider
group." They were desperately seeking the
crashed flying saucers, and MJ-12 group just like
the rest of Ufology. They believed, according to
some, that there was an unknown mysterious
engineering project run by either Admiral Bobby
Ray Inman or General John J. Sheehan. A lot of
black budget money was known to be flowing in that
direction. No one, however, seemed able to get
anything concrete on the group.

They had an advantage in seeking the answer in
that they knew some of the black secrets of the
government. In addition, they were able to talk to
other high-ranking people who would speak to them
because of their backgrounds.

The UFO Working Group came together to work on
the UFO problem, knowing that together they could
share and achieve more than by working alone. They
worked on four main problems;

1. Investigating UFO Reports

2. Investigating the MJ-12 Documents

3. Investigating the scuttlebutt of UFO
crashed saucer stories being told by insiders
and witnesses

4. Investigated global US intelligence
assets being used to detect UFOs

Many of the 17 men in the UFO Working Group
would go on to become members of another
top-secret chat group known as the Aviary. In
fact, the UFO Working Group might just have been
how the Aviary came together.

This informal group became famous for their
connections to researcher Bill Moore in the late
1980s and early 1990s. They went by bird names
that allowed them to talk among each other without
everyone knowing who they were. At least that was
the plan.

Many of UFO Working Group, turned Aviary, went
on to become members of the National Institute of
Discovery Sciences (NIDS), started up by Nevada
billionaire Robert M. Bigalow. NIDS like the other
two groups provided the members to share their
common goal of understanding the truth of the UFO
mystery.

The head of the UFO Working Group given the
name "Col. Howard Phillips" by Blum was
actually Col. John Alexander (Penguin). Alexander
was former director of non-lethal weapons testing
at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico

.
This is a fact that has been posted on UFO
discussion boards only months after the book came
out in 1996.

Other members of the UFO Working Group included
former CIA scientist Dr. Christopher
"Kit" Green (Blue Jay); USAF Colonel Ron
Blackburn, former microwave scientist and
specialist at Kirkland Air Force Base; Dr. Hal
Puthoff (Owl), former member of the NSA and one of
the original researchers who developed the
protocols for remote viewing with Ingo Swann; Dr
Jack Verona (RAVEN), one of the Department of
Defense initiators of the DlA's Sleeping Beauty
project which aimed to achieve battlefield
superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic
weaponry;Ronald Pandolfi, chief scientist for the
CIA (Pelican); Dr. Robert Wood at McDonald Douglas
who would go on to become the chief researcher of
the 3700 pages of documents leaked in the 1990s
from six different intelligence sources; Hal
McConnell from the NSA; and Major General Albert
Stubblebine, the Commander of the Army’s
Intelligence and Security Command.

Ninety percent of the UFO Working Group
meetings took place in the BDM secure vault in
McCLean, Virginia. This is because group member
General Stubblebine was the Vice-President of BDM
at the time. Only one meeting occurred in the
Defense Intelligence Agency secure vault.

They were trying to become an official
government sponsored group looking for the answer,
but failed to get the funding. "They seem
like a loose-knit, unofficial discussion group
called together on the authority of Phillips, a
self-appointed UFO guru within the agency,"
says Larry W. Bryant, who directs the Washington,
DC, office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS)

When ten sessions had been completed of the UFO
Working Group John Alexander compiled the
information they had gathered in a briefing book.
It was presented to the then ready to retire
defense authority. He, however, did not want the
controversy. He denied the request to officialize
the UFO Working Group into a formal government
funded and operated group. The UFO Working Group
folded but most of the members continued to
interact in what became known as the Aviary.

In the end of his book Blum concluded based on
the material he had been fed, that he had not
found the conclusive proof for UFOs. The actual
UFO working group arrived at this same conclusion.
In fact Blum became convinced that much of the
governments silence was due to the vast amounts
that it did not know.